Kleine Affen, Tolle Riffe und Lustige Leute in den Visayas
A little travel writing in German, to make sure I don’t quite forget how to use my native language…. Im
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All kinds of writing
Palawan Entlang
I haven’t completely forgotten how to write in my native language, German…. Die Philippinen, das fantastische Archipel am Übergang Asiens
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Support a Writer, Buy Books for Christmas!
Christmas is coming! In fact, if you live in the Philippines, things have been Christmasy since early September. But we
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Coconut (Not Shark!) Safety Course
I was planning to develop a new shark safety course, to give divers the knowledge to safely swim with sharks.
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Love and Language Mixing
I have read that the great linguist Noam Chomsky met his wife in Hebrew class, and she married him because
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Thoughts on Mudskipping
Since I started living in places in the sub-tropics (Okinawa) and tropics (Philippines), I have always enjoyed observing and photographing
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Wrecks as Marine Life Magnets
Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs, as homes for a large number of fishes and invertebrates. Specifically scorpionfishes, cardinalfishes, hatchetfishes and
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Self Conscious Cleaner Wrasses
Cleaner Wrasses, Mirrors, and Mirror Neurons… Recently, Masanori Kohda and colleagues published a clever scientific paper showing that cleaner wrasses,
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The Chocolate Bar Nudibranch
After many years of observing and photographing shell-less marine gastropods (nudibranchs) underwater, I have finally described a species of my
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Fish of the month: T. vagina
This month’s fish of the month is a goby, which lives in marine and brackish waters in the tropics. In
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